CVE-2026-43165 (GCVE-0-2026-43165)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-05-06 11:27 – Updated: 2026-05-07 17:14
VLAI?
Title
hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin
Summary
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:
hwmon: (nct7363) Fix a resource leak in nct7363_present_pwm_fanin
When calling of_parse_phandle_with_args(), the caller is responsible
to call of_node_put() to release the reference of device node.
In nct7363_present_pwm_fanin, it does not release the reference,
causing a resource leak.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
Assigner
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linux | Linux |
Affected:
46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < c8cde3ddd12ad7d0e6b5a3e0ea3914a9a778adf4
(git)
Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < fb99b58763a95e20b214fc1dd86837ae00a400b7 (git) Affected: 46b94c485ed197bc681da242440c6e2315697c57 , < 4923bbff0bcffe488b3aa76829c829bd15b02585 (git) |
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